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A band that sadly gets forgotten in the midst of all these delicious Canterbury acts(well maybe not moreso than some of these acts in this thread - as this easily is one of the more far fetching of the sort I personally have come acrossApprove) is Dutch act Pantheon with their sole album Orion. Some pretty saucy stuff:
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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

I can't help with recommendations, as I'm just as unfamiliar with the scene; I'm a Canterbury noob. I only have Soft Machine's Third and Fourth, and Ive heard various things from many of the Shred guys.I also have all of The Tangent albums; many of their songs are highly influenced by the Canterbury scene.

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Originally posted by MillsLayne MillsLayne wrote:

I'm loving Quiet Sun's Mainstream.  So happy I happened upon a review of it to get my attention because that is an awesome album.  And I'm like that Hiro Yanagida song above.  Still have a long way to go to get through all of these!

yesh, planty of nice colorful albums. Quiet Sun is definitly a great one. I have found this one later in my progression due to the fact that there were no major canterbury vet other than Bill MacCormick who were playing the bass in Matchin'Moles too... 


Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

A band that sadly gets forgotten in the midst of all these delicious Canterbury acts(well maybe not moreso than some of these acts in this thread - as this easily is one of the more far fetching of the sort I personally have come acrossApprove) is Dutch act Pantheon with their sole album Orion. Some pretty saucy stuff:

mine comes in a digipack and sounds terrible... its a bit a shame cause yeah, the songs are great.


This one from two well-known vets is really quiet. I like a lot.

http://youtu.be/9QAvWPzfNC4


this one is Abraxis – Abraxis, jazz-fusion group by the leader of Pazop, rare

http://youtu.be/00lt-rm8bAw


a RPQ band named Opus 5 has done some nice fusion songs where i could hear some canterbury lining. I cannot really say if they were influenced by the canterbury scene or not

http://youtu.be/ut5fN3Q2F1k



edit : I cannot embed the videos... dunno why.






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Hi,

IN general, for my tastes, the majority of Canterbury is too "style" oriented, as if the jazz'y style was more intellectual or academic ... and not many of those bands did very much rock oriented things. 

In terms of "progressive", Khan (Steve Hillage) would be one of the exceptions along with Quiet Sun and I don't remember Egg too well right now.

The fusion style of the jazz thing is a bit overdone and "the same" for my ears. The part of Canterbury that I tend to listen to the most, would be (still) Kevin Ayers, who is still around doing his thing, Daevid Allen and Gong folks. 

There are some Gong offshoots, but the funny thing is that most of them stick to the rock side of things or the meditative side of things, rather than the jazz thing, other than Daevid (on occasion) doing some of it just for fun and play. Of all the things I listened to here, the first one was the nicest for my ears, and the last one posted is very nice as well. Pantheon.

Would be nice to see more bands do this on the rock side of things ... instead of the jazz side. 


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Found Caravan's If I Could... at a record shop this weekend, and I gotta say, while the album as a whole is enjoyable, "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock" is worth the price of admission alone. 


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Originally posted by MillsLayne MillsLayne wrote:

Found Caravan's If I Could... at a record shop this weekend, and I gotta say, while the album as a whole is enjoyable, "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock" is worth the price of admission alone. 
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I've been listening to a lot of Hatfield and the North Thumbs Up
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Listening to National Health, and Brujo is so amazing! So furious. Love the tightness of this Canterbury super group. 
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by The Wrinkler The Wrinkler wrote:

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Points: 2504 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2012 at 07:56
I think Hatfield And The North's S/T will be my next purchase (maybe after I complete my 70's VdGG collection). Tongue


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I just finished "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night" and really enjoyed the second half of this album.  I was also surprised to hear a section of SM's "Slightly All The Time" in the last suite (I think it's called "Backwards").  Very cool album.


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